Who all belongs to the brass section: Trumpet Trumbone Baritone Tuba French Horn
Simple Tips:
1. Your trumpet is made so that it can play most notes almost perfectly, but even now it has some minor flaws. When you play a D or C#, kick your small tuning slide out by a half inch to make the notes sound natural instead of flat.
2. Polish instrument at least every week. Give it a bath at least once a month (you can tell by taking the bottom cap off of your valve; you'll understand when you take it off and see a bunch of black gunk in it).
3. DO NOT fling your instrument around!
4. Practice bunches /:)
The first brass bands used cornets and no trumpets. The lead was always played by the cornet player. In the early period in New Orleans they played with 2 Bb and 1 Eb cornet. They used two solo cornets and one first cornet player. The two solo cornets would play the same part, alternating the lead and allowing each to rest. The first cornetist, who played all the time, played an easier second cornet harmony. The Eb cornet was decline in use during the First WW years. During the 1920s there was a change in instrumentation, when trumpets replaced cornets.
The Trumpet Section
Who all belongs to the brass section:
Trumpet
Trumbone
Baritone
Tuba
French Horn
Simple Tips:
1. Your trumpet is made so that it can play most notes almost perfectly, but even now it has some minor flaws. When you play a D or C#, kick your small tuning slide out by a half inch to make the notes sound natural instead of flat.
2. Polish instrument at least every week. Give it a bath at least once a month (you can tell by taking the bottom cap off of your valve; you'll understand when you take it off and see a bunch of black gunk in it).
3. DO NOT fling your instrument around!
4. Practice bunches /:)
Cool Websites:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TrumpetBoredom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U7TcaXVy80
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzb_OZexZDQ&feature=channel_page <-- Funny:)
http://www.youtube.com/user/1alexmthemurraynator
Cool Pictures
Conn Gold Plated Bb Trumpet (1921)
Eb Silver Trumpet
Mondstuck Louis Armstrongs Mouthpiece
Louis Armstrongs Trumpet
Old Trumpets
Customized Schiller Bb Trumpet
Elaborate Black Plated Trumpet
Conn 10 Bb Trumpet (1958)
Even Cooler Pictures:
Pufferfish Trumpet
Awsome. Instrument.
Trumpets Also Live in Space;)
A Little Trumpet History
The first brass bands used cornets and no trumpets. The lead was always played by the cornet player. In the early period in New Orleans they played with 2 Bb and 1 Eb cornet. They used two solo cornets and one first cornet player. The two solo cornets would play the same part, alternating the lead and allowing each to rest. The first cornetist, who played all the time, played an easier second cornet harmony. The Eb cornet was decline in use during the First WW years. During the 1920s there was a change in instrumentation, when trumpets replaced cornets.